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wholly of a purpliih black : the legs red, like the bill : the claws 

 large, hooked, and black. 

 Place. -jhis bird is pretty common in fome parts of the Englijl) coaftsj, 



particularly the weftern, in Devonjlrire and Cornwall; and again 

 on many parts of the coafts of Walts and Scotland; in Kent like- 

 wife, among the cliffs of Dover, a few are met with, which is faid 

 to have happened by accident, from a pair of birds fent as a- 

 preicnt from the weft having efcaped to the cliffs, and bred there. 

 Befides England, it is met with in the Alps and in Carinthia *. 

 Hajfelquift f mentions its coming into Egypt towards the end of 

 the inundations of the Nile, in the months of September and Octo- 

 ber. It is met with alfo in Perfia %, and the ifland of Candia ||. 

 We are not certain in what parts befides, as moil writers are fileht 

 about it. 

 Manners. It affects to build in rocky places every where, laying four or 



five white eggs fpotted with yellow. Scopoli fays, that at the 

 latter hay-time they come down in the low meadows by hun- 

 dreds, devouring the locufts, and are fond of juniper-berries : are a 

 reftlefs, clamorous bird : greedy, fnatching food one from an- 

 other : fear neither dog nor wolf: if one is killed, and a hat 

 thrown up in the fame place, it will recal the reft to their deftruc- 

 tion. Flies in circles. Some in autumn acquire blacklegs. When 

 in Egypt faid to feed on a kind of Blatta. With us it imitates the 

 Jackdaw in manners ; thievifh, fond of glitter, and even dangerous 

 to keep tame, as it has been known to catch up lighted flicks, 

 whereby houfes haVe been fet on fire. 



* Sccpoli. -f Itin. p. 238. 



% At Jerom, the bills and feet (of the Crows) are as red as vermilion. 

 Tryer'sTrav. p. 318. 

 B Belon Ohferv, p. J". 



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